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  • Dhaka Megacity

    Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health

    Edited by Ashraf Dewan, Robert Corner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book Dhaka Megacity: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health presents the use of geospatial techniques to address a number of environmental issues, including land use change, climatic variability, urban sprawl, population density modelling, flooding, environmental health, water quality, energy resources, urban growth modelling, infectious diseases and the quality of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    by Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

    Edited by Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu ...
    Series Book 2 - Geotechnologies and the Environment
    This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Geospatial Analysis to Support Urban Planning in Beijing

    by Ying Long, Zhenjiang Shen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the relationships between human behaviors and spatial patterns in order to simulate activities in an urban space, visualize planning ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Field Informatics

    Kyoto University Field Informatics Research Group

    Edited by Toru Ishida ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Here we use the term "field" to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "field informatics" describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field. The components of field informatics are description, prediction, design and transfer, and the methods for those components vary widely. For example, we consider the social goal of revitalizing a mountainous ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning

    Edited by Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Marco Keiner, Gustav Nussbaumer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Experiencing the world of daily life means to observe and perceive the natural, the man-made, the socio-spatial, and the politico-economic elements of the en vironment we live in. But, have you ever tried to explain the phenomena of daily life such as a traffic jam or mass transit to a child? It will take you quite a while to find suitable images to make invisible forces perceivable and con cepts ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems

    Applying the Technology to the Environment

    Edited by David R. Green, Stephen D. King ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The emphasis now placed on the concept of sediment cells as boundaries for coastal defence groups, and the development of SMPs, should help CPAs realise the importance of natural processes at the coast when designing defence and protection schemes. However, this will only be the case where defence groups exist, and where CPAs take up the challenge of developing SMPs. Coastal landscapes have been ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling

    Decision-Support and Planning Strategies

    Edited by Gotthard Meinel, Martin Behnisch ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a collection of original research papers that focus on recent developments in Spatial Analysis and Modelling with direct relevance to settlements and infrastructure. Topics include new types of data (such as simulation data), applications of methods to support decision-making, and investigations of human-environment data in order to recognize significance for structures, functions and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    by Mashael Mohammed Al Saud ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future

    Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013

    Edited by Kohei Okamoto, Yoshitaka Ishikawa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on ... Read more

    $107.99 USD